Manager, SAR Filing

We are a hybrid, remote-office company dedicated to growing our talent anywhere!

We have onsite locations in: Sioux Falls, SD,  Phoenix, AZ,  Louisville, KY,  Troy, MI,  Franklin, TN,  Easton, PA.

At Pathward, we take tremendous pride in our purpose to create financial inclusion for all™. We are a financial empowerment company that works with innovators to increase financial availability, choice, and opportunity for all.  We strive to remove barriers that traditional institutions put in the way of financial access, and promote economic mobility by providing responsible, secure, high quality financial products.

We are a team of problem solvers and innovators who celebrate our differences and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger and well-positioned for success.  We celebrate, and embrace, our team members through our *HUMBLE*HUNGRY*SMART approach, and we believe that we are strongest when we embrace the voices of our employees, customers, partners, and the communities we serve. 

About the Role:

The Manager, SAR Filing is responsible for the day-to-day execution and oversight of Pathward’s Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) and Currency Transaction Report (CTR) filing function within the BSA/AML & Sanctions Operations team, ensuring compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), FinCEN requirements, and OCC supervisory expectations. The Manager, SAR Filing leads the intake, triage, and quality-controlled routing of Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) referrals into the filing workflow, ensuring timely, complete, and defensible hand-offs to the filing team. Reporting to the Vice President, SAR Filing, this role supervises the internal SAR filing analysts and manages the day-to-day review of both internally generated SAR referrals and potential SARs surfaced by external reviewers. The Manager ensures all filings are accurate, timely, complete, and defensible, and that Pathward independently reviews and retains all decisioning and filing authority for work performed internally and by consultants.

What You Will Do:

• Manage the day-to-day SAR and CTR filing program: timeliness, quality, continuing-activity monitoring, and FinCEN e-filing accuracy.
• Supervise the internal SAR filing analysts responsible for SAR/CTR preparation, quality review, and FinCEN e-filing.
• Own the day-to-day SAR intake process — receipt, triage, completeness review, and routing of referrals into the filing workflow — across internal and consultant-delivered channels.
• Manage regulatory timeliness (SAR filing clocks, continuing activity deadlines) and ensure aging, backlog, and capacity are actively monitored and escalated.
• Ensure intake documentation meets the five-element documentation baseline and internal quality standards before hand-off to the filing team.